People want to play with more than just Tales and Monarch lol...

Of course the game will continue, without those who want to play the things that now artificially more difficult to get for no good reason. That is how a game dies, slowly losing tiny tiny tiny portions of the player base until the base that is left is not inviting for new players to join, so less new people join and now it's dead. It is that simple, and can happen to us if shortsighted decisions are prioritized over the long term health of the community and availability of what that community is after.

Please explain to me how restricted access to tool of an activity is what feeds longevity(in what way: community, sales, views, google searches?) in something like a card game.